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Smaller Maggies For Smaller Rooms

“What do you do if you covet Magnepan’s soaring loudspeakers but don’t have the largest of listening rooms?” asks the company’s latest press release and it seems they have just the solution with their new 0.7 (‘point seven’), a scaled down version of the brand’s acclaimed 1.7 model. The new 0.7 (‘point seven’) is a […]

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Lots Of Head-Fi Premiers At CanJam Europe 2015

The third annual headphone show CanJam Europe on September 26th and 27th in Essen, Germany, will be presenting a huge variety of headphones and accessories. The event’s organisers were aiming for 100 brands, more than 110 have already signed up. The seminar and workshop track has experts speak on personal audio topics and the “Best […]

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Free Room Set Up Seminars At Whittlebury

GIK Acoustics, manufacturer and seller of acoustical absorption and diffusion products, is pleased to announce that GeneralManager David Shevyn will give two educational talks on the importance of room treatments at the National Audio Show in Whittlebury Hall this weekend. Mr. Shevyn will present a discussion on the importance of room treatments and the basics […]

Comment Views Of Stu

CDs

The CD was a revelation in its day and I even recall one very animated presenter from Tomorrow’s Worldsmearing jam, or was it marmalade, over one of the discs, wiping it off and then playing the disc…But are they worth bothering with now?

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Eclipse At RMAF

ECLIPSE, the high-performance loudspeaker division within Fujitsu Ten, the multi- billion-dollar global technology giant, is to exhibit at The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest! ECLIPSE will be taking selected models from its legendary range of loudspeakers and subwoofers, to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2015 (October 02nd – 04th 2015). Following the company’s successful participation at […]

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McIntosh C52 Preamplifier Announced

Another new preamplifier from McIntosh has been announced on the company’s website, hot on the heals of the C1100 that we broke news of yesterday. “The C52 is the most advanced, single chassis solid state preamplifier we’ve ever made” the company say. For connecting analogue devices, it includes 3 balanced and 4 unbalanced fully assignable […]

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Jordan Acoustics Have a New Website

Jordan Acoustics has launched a brand new tailor-made website which they say brings visitors the very best in high-performance audio from around the world. The fully searchable site offers a host of new features along with a fresh, modern design that perfectly complements Jordan Acoustics’ two luxurious outlets, Bournemouth and Glenrothes _ it’s certainly easy […]

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Entotem At Whittlebury

Entotem got in touch to tell Hifi Pig readers what they will be up to at this year’s Whittlebury show with their Plato system which was first introduced earlier this year at the Sound and Vision Show in Bristol, winning the Clarity Alliance Innovation award. In May Entotem took the Plato system to the High […]

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A Couple Of New Products From Etalon In Hungary

StrEamer Mini server for gapless playback of music via internet streaming and/or radio with integrated high precision volume control. Being connected to a home network system can be totally remote controlled by mobile phone or tablet. Technical data: Inputs: RJ45 for Ethernet connection and USB for external storage as USB-stick or HDD Output: USB high […]

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Chord Electronics, The Chord Company and Leema Acoustics At Whittlebury

A trio of clients from the Dan George Communications portfolio will be exhibiting and showing flagship products at the National Audio Show 2015, this weekend! Chord Electronics Chord Electronics’ new flagship DAVE DAC/preamp will be playing at the show this weekend! Chord are supporting two retail partners at the NAS: Fanthorpes, one of the UK’s […]

Album Reviews

Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)

It seems that nearly all the new music I’ve been listening to lately has had a distinctly retro feel.  None more so than Coming Home by Leon Bridges. Twenty six year old Bridges from Fort Worth, Texas had been working as a dishwasher but due to chance meeting with Austin Jenkins from psych-rock band White […]

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Why Are There So Few Women Into Hifi?

While we are on the subject, if you guys really want us women to join in more on audiophile/hifi forums and groups, please, just put it away will you?  I remember being at school in the 70s and the boys would be frequently shrieked at, by irate teachers, for having competitions to see who could […]

Live Music Music News

Tubular Bells For Two – Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

“Iconic” is a much overused word but when it comes to Tubular Bells, its use is entirely justified.  From its cover art to its multi tracked instrumentation, the album embodies the early seventies just as Sergeant Pepper did for the late sixties  a few years earlier and Never Mind The Bollocks would do for the […]